26 Feb 1998
"Free speech not only lives, it rocks," a beaming Oprah Winfrey said Thursday after jurors rejected a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by Texas cattlemen. The Amarillo, Texas, jury decided the television talk show host did not maliciously harm the U.S. beef industry in a 1996 program on mad cow disease.
Plaintiffs who say the show caused a cattle market plunge that caused them to lose $11 million said they planned to appeal,...
Mad Cow Disease Events
| 1996 Apr 16 |
Oprah Airs An Episode About Mad Cow Disease
Winfrey's influence reaches far beyond pop culture and into unrelated industries where many believe she has the power to cause enormous market swings and radical price changes with a sing...
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| 1998 Feb 26 |
Oprah Winfrey Is Found Not Guilty
"Free speech not only lives, it rocks," a beaming Oprah Winfrey said Thursday after jurors rejected a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by Texas cattlemen. The Amarillo, Texas, jury ...
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| 2012 Apr 24 |
New Case of Mad Cow Disease in California
A new case of mad cow disease has surfaced in a dairy cow in California, but the animal was not bound for the nation's food supply and posed no danger, the Agriculture Department said Tue...
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